you have probably noticed that the sandwich-makers behind the counter follow a well-established pattern.

Not around here. I remember working there in New Mexico in the '90's and there was an exact method to how to build the sandwich. Up here, they just throw the stuff on there without any regard to order. Usually they reach for the lettuce first even though the employee handbook says onion first.

Too bad Subway actually builds a healthy sandwich with a wide variety of vegetables and supplements it with some meat and cheese for flavor instead of just giving people gout with heaping mounds of roast beef.

jaylectricity:Too bad Subway actually builds a healthy sandwich with a wide variety of vegetables and supplements it with some meat and cheese for flavor instead of just giving people gout with heaping mounds of roast beef.

People often ask the same question with regard to McDonald's. Creating a cheap, tasty food that will sell to billions of people, tailored to each country, and able to be assembled by unskilled workers? Takes some skill.

jaylectricity:Too bad Subway actually builds a healthy sandwich with a wide variety of vegetables and supplements it with some meat and cheese for flavor instead of just giving people gout with heaping mounds of roast beef.

NOT SO! You can order it with a bunch of extra meat and a bunch of extra cheese and a ton of mayo and mustard and salt while we're at it and leave all the healthy crap off, if you want. Entirely up to you.

I live in one of the kings of sandwich towns - New Orleans. Yet Subway still flourishes. Sometimes you just want something cheap, easy, and resembling actual food. There's one a few blocks from my house and I pick up regularly. However, it doesn't hold a candle to a roast beef po-boy from Parasol's (almost next door to me but they always take 30 minutes to make a sandwich) or a good fried oyster po' from Magazine Po-Boy around the corner.

But they're cheap, but most importantly, fast. If Subway ever pulls a Chik-Fil-A and I have to take a moral stance on the issue, I'm screwed. A man's stomach and his personal convictions can often clash. What would I do without my foot-long spicy Italian? (dude, don't make the obvious jokes, here).

/there's also a Quizno's a block from my place, but they're just as expensive as a real New Orleans po-boy. I'm surprised they're still in business.

I assume the executive chef's primary responsibility is to make sure that no matter what the sub is (special sandwich, cold cut combo, tuna, meatball, spicy italian, etc, etc) it tastes EXACTLLY the same as every other sandwich no matter how you dress them.

I honestly believe that some type of long form calculus or quantum mechanics must be involved to make every sandwich taste like every other sandwich, or lizard people may be involved.

Archimedes' Principal:I'm afraid to eat at Subway now. The 'chef' referred to the meats as proteins. Does this allow them a legal out, if an over-ambitious employee puts his own 'secret sauce' on a sandwich?

/ Anybody else remember when, back in the '80s, they used to cut a trough out of their bread, instead of normal slicing?

Oh god yes, someone biatches about that every Subway thread. And we all solemnly and mournfully nod.

CSB- When I was a kid, we used to sell overpriced chocolate candy bars for Little League. They came with Subway coupons on the wrapper. We'd get high on our own supply and go to Subway every weekend after the game. They would cut the trough in the bread, and life was good.

Archimedes' Principal:I'm afraid to eat at Subway now. The 'chef' referred to the meats as proteins. Does this allow them a legal out, if an over-ambitious employee puts his own 'secret sauce' on a sandwich?

/ Anybody else remember when, back in the '80s, they used to cut a trough out of their bread, instead of normal slicing?

He's just using a buzzword he heard on the Food Network to make him sound more like an Executive Chef rather than the CEO's nephew.

Archimedes' Principal:Anybody else remember when, back in the '80s, they used to cut a trough out of their bread, instead of normal slicing?

YES!! I fricken loved my sandwich like that. If you ask any subway to do it today, they refuse! Apparently if you ask them to put the meat&cheese together, and then the veggies on top they'll also have a conniption fit because it's not spec

toyotaboy:Archimedes' Principal: Anybody else remember when, back in the '80s, they used to cut a trough out of their bread, instead of normal slicing?

YES!! I fricken loved my sandwich like that. If you ask any subway to do it today, they refuse! Apparently if you ask them to put the meat&cheese together, and then the veggies on top they'll also have a conniption fit because it's not spec

A grinder or submarine sandwich should not have a trough. I am not a horse. A proper sandwich is cut all the way through and the ingredients are put on the sandwich. They're orrible sandwiches anyway. Bread is too soft, with no proper crust. You need a true crust on the bread, much like you would find at a good Italian bakery. No shredded lettuce either. And no hot subs either. Jesus!

Once I started ordering/building a sandwich at subway, when we got to the veggies they where out of cucumbers, It was hot and I wanted cucumbers, so I no longer wanted it and walked out... On the way out they yelled I had to pay for the sandwich I did not accept nor want. I told them that they need to post a sign when they are out of ingredients and continued out.. To this day they still feel I owe them for the sandwich...

panfried:Once I started ordering/building a sandwich at subway, when we got to the veggies they where out of cucumbers, It was hot and I wanted cucumbers, so I no longer wanted it and walked out... On the way out they yelled I had to pay for the sandwich I did not accept nor want. I told them that they need to post a sign when they are out of ingredients and continued out.. To this day they still feel I owe them for the sandwich...

I've done that once, but the location it happened at was understanding about their mistake and I still go there. As for the manner in which the sandwich is built, I wouldn't go to a Subway again if they ever got rid of the glass view. It is much better to catch their mistakes right then as oppose to getting home and finding out the hard way. I don't understand the folks who use the drive-thru.

/I have pissed off a few Subway people over the years, but you know, their job is simple compared to other restaurants.//A couple were mad at me over a little extra condiment on the sandwich///funny, when their boss made my sandwich, he didn't mind

Archimedes' Principal:I'm afraid to eat at Subway now. The 'chef' referred to the meats as proteins. Does this allow them a legal out, if an over-ambitious employee puts his own 'secret sauce' on a sandwich?

/ Anybody else remember when, back in the '80s, they used to cut a trough out of their bread, instead of normal slicing?

The Subway near my neighborhood when I was a kid cut the top of the loaf in a V (y'know, angled down, so all the toppings and juices stay where they should). I miss that.

jaylectricity:Too bad Subway actually builds a healthy sandwich with a wide variety of vegetables and supplements it with some meat and cheese for flavor instead of just giving people gout with heaping mounds of roast beef.

Why do you hate America?

Subway is the heathiest thing in the world according to Doctor's AssociatesTM!

A foot long pizza with extra olives & jalapenos with lots of hot sauce and southwest sauce is the only fast food I've bought regularly over the last 17 years. Tasty, filling and fast. It is also the only item I buy that hasn't inflated much in price. A foot long pizza sub was $4.60 in grade 8, 18 years ago. It's $6 today.